Alternate Waterloo Campaign

That map doesn't show the positions of the Dender river and of Ninove which is where Wellington ordered Lord Hill's and Lord Uxbridge's HUGE armies to go to.
It is interesting to note that the Dender river and Ninove were where Uxbridge's army was generally located on that map
You seem to have changed your mind about whether the map shows the positions of the Dender river and of Ninove. What you don't seem to have changed your mind about is the idea that the entire Anglo-Allied army was cantoned within a three mile radius of Brussels and that Wellington foolishly packed Hill off to the Dender river and Uxbridge towards Ninove before hastily recalling them from their wild goose chase. Hill and Uxbridge have been stationed in these areas to guard against a French attack for months: Wellington orders them to concentrate, then pulls them in towards the French attack.
Wellington hardly moved his positions any closer to the Prussians while the Prussians were going towards Ligny.
He orders the units of his army to concentrate, either at their divisional headquarters or at the nearest defensible town, on the afternoon of the 15th. He then orders them to start moving towards the Prussians late on the 15th. I've posted the instructions they received, and the directions are clear: towards the Prussians.
Consequently Wellington increased the distance between his army and the Prussians on the 15th and 16th of June when the Battles of Quatre-Bras and Ligny occurred and had to make corrections.
Right. Here are Wellington's despatches: show me which orders you think move Wellington's units away from the Prussians.

The Prussians were attacked by the French too and still figured out to make to to [sic] Waterloo ON TIME.
Blucher announced they'd be setting off at dawn to cover ten miles by road to Wellington's left flank: Wellington, making allowances for the poor roads, expected them there by two o'clock. So I assume by "ON TIME" you mean "BEFORE THE BATTLE HAD FINISHED" rather than "WHEN THEY HAD PROMISED TO BE THERE".

The Prince of Orange was the one that ordered his troops to concentrate on Quatre-Bras against Wellington's orders.
Luckily for Wellington, two Dutch-Belgian generals correctly assessed the situation. At about 1400 Constant-Rebecque, the Prince of Orange's chief of staff began concentrating Orange's corps around Quatre-Bras. General Perponcher, one of Orange's division commanders decided that it would be much wiser to defend the strategically important crossroads at Quatre-Bras instead of concentrating near Nivelles as ordered by Wellington.
You seem to have changed your mind about who made the order as well. Best of three?
 
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